Responsibility of director, editorial team, and editorial commitee
- The director and editorial committee of the journal have an obligation to certify the quality of the published material. They must guarantee the application of objective criteria and exclude any type of discriminatory bias based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, or else.
- They must safeguard the integrity and protection of confidential information provided by contributors to the journal.
- The director, editorial team, and editorial committee are forbidden to use unpublished material for personal, collective, or institutional benefit without due consent and express acceptance of the appropriate party.
- They must publish any type of correction, amendment, retraction or clarification, if necessary.
- The director and editorial team must ensure that the anonymity of the blind peer reviewers is respected.
- It is the responsibility of the editorial team to inform in a timely manner the evaluation results of every submission.
- The director of Aisthesis is ultimately responsible for decisions on the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts submitted to the journal, based on the recommendations of the peer reviewers and the Editorial Committee.

Responsibility of peer reviewers
- Peer reviewers are committed to applying, in their reviews, clear and objective criteria and exclude any tipe of discriminatory bias against the authors behind the submissions.
- Peer reviewers are committed to protecting the confidentiality of each article they receive for review.
- In the case of a suspected conflict of interest, peer reviewers must inform the editorial team and remove themselves from the evaluation process.
- Peer reviewers cannot use any material entrusted to them for evaluation without the express permission of its author and the journal.

Responsibility of authors
- Authors must guarantee the credibility of the personal information provided alongside their submission.
- Authors must guarantee the originality of their submitted work. Aisthesis does not accept article submissions that have been previously published, either in their entirety or partially, nor published book chapters or similar examples. Every article submitted to the journal must be unpublished.
- Aisthesis rejects any type of plagiarism, either partial or complete, and uses Ithenticate software technology to verify the originality of every received article. It is the responsibility of each author to correctly use citation guidelines to avoid any instances of plagiarism. Regarding self-plagiarism, authors are considered to have incurred in this fault when they send a submission to our journal that has been previously published in another platform, or uses a substantial amount of their own work without citation. Additionally, authors should not reference their own work more than five times per submission to Aisthesis.
- It is the exclusive responsibility of the authors to send their work in the format that the journal requires (see Submission Preparation Checklist). Aisthesis reserves the right to reject submissions based exclusively on failure to follow presentation guidelines.
- Authors are responsible for managing licencing rights for the use of photos, images, and any other type of material that requires such authorisation.
- Authors of papers published in Aisthesis must collaborate as peer reviewers of at least two other articles assigned to them through our platform.
- Once an author is published in the journal, he/she must wait at least 3 years to resubmit a new article for peer review.

Conflicts of interest
Conflicts of interest occur when the authors, peer reviewers, or editors have interests that can influence any of the stages related to the publication process: from biased writing in an article to the acceptance of a submission following personal interests.
Aisthesis adheres to the regulations established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)(https://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct) and the declaration of «Responsible Research Publication: International Standards for Editors» agreed upon at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity in Singapore between the 22nd and 24th of July 2010.
The journal encourages authors and other interested parties to communicate any conflicts of interest that may arise in writing and/or submitting a publication proposal. Additionally, peer reviewers are required to declare any conflict of interest that may influence their requested task. The journal reserves the right to unassign a review based on this information. For their part, the editorial team at Aisthesis is committed to making decisions that favour the absence of conflicts of interest in all stages of the editorial process.

Anti-plagiarism Policy

Aisthesis rejects any type of plagiarism, either partial or complete, and uses Similarity Check -Similarity Check - Ithenticate software technology to verify the originality of every received article. It is the responsibility of each author to correctly use citation guidelines to avoid any instances of plagiarism. Regarding self-plagiarism, authors are considered to have incurred in this fault when they send a submission to our journal that has been previously published in another platform, or uses a substantial amount of their own work without citation. Additionally, authors should not reference their own work more than five times per submission to Aisthesis.

Ethical Supervision Policy
With the purpose of guaranteeing a harmonous relationship between all involved parties and assuring the quality of its contents, Aisthesis urges all authors, peer reviewers, and members of both the internal and international committee to uphold the highest standards of intellectual and scientific integrity.
Upon suspicion of plagiarism, fabricated or falsified information in a manuscript, gift authorship, or undeclared conflicts of interest, the editorial team will follow the recommendations established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).